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Negative Return

from Wake Up Gasping by Angela Brett

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A breakup poem about a Space Shuttle launch, or a Space Shuttle poem about a breakup.

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First you see it, then you hear it, then you feel it.

First you see it.
The shuttle slipping up into the sky,
The subtle disaffection in her eye.
The blooming smoke that seems it's painted on,
The lustful fire you can't believe is gone.

Then you hear it.
The solid rocket booster firing noise
The falling out of love that's in her voice.
A sound so loud it can destroy its very source
The sound suppression system dissipates the force.
Unsound depression wisdom yells it back to her,
Resounding hate-you-toos destroying everything you were.

Then you feel it.
The shockwave that can shake your every cell.
The rocketing heartache you'll never dispel.
Explosive blast of air across the water from the pad
She knows you're stuck down there, weighed down with everything you had,
Feeling all the blame in lover's rush to be set free
Searing in the flame trench in the crush of gravity.

You see her thrust toward nothingness as shuttle engines burn.
You hear the launch controllers saying "Negative Return"
You feel your inner hollowness do nothing else but yearn.

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from Wake Up Gasping, released April 8, 2021
Opening vocals from a tour guide at Kennedy Space Center
Space Shuttle launch sound from NASA: archive.org/details/NasaAudioHighlightReels/Launch-Sound_Shuttle-Launch-IN-CABIN-FINALIZED.mp3

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gelastic, adj. relating to or causing laughter

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